English News - Spring 2011

Patricia A. Dunn was Guest Editor of a special issue of English Journal called Re-Seeing (Dis)Ability. She also published an essay in that issue, “Re-Seeing (Dis)Ability: Ten Suggestions,” English Journal 100.2 (November 2010): 14—26. Professor Dunn presented a paper, “Using Grammar Rants to Develop Critical Thinking, at the National Council of Teachers of English Conference on November 10, 2010, in Orlando, Florida.
 
E. Ann Kaplan published an article,  “The Unconscious of Age: Performances in Psychoanalysis, Film and Popular Culture” in Age on Stage, eds. Valerie Lipscomb and Leni Marshall. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press (2010): 27-56. She gave a paper, "Multidirectional Trauma, Recovery and Performativity: Memorial Sites and Film," at The American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference, Seattle, WA., November 20, 2010.
 
Celia Marshik published an article, “Thinking Back through Copyright: Freedom and Fair Use in Virginia Woolf’s Nonfiction”  in the edited collection Modernism and Copyright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).  At the annual Modernist Studies Association conference in Victoria, BC, she presented a paper, “Fancy Dress in/and Bloomsbury," and co-chaired a seminar, “The Modernism-Fashion Nexus," in November 2010.

Peter Manning delivered a lecture, "Lyric and Journalism: Wordsworth's 'Illustrated Books and Newspapers,'" for the New York City Romanticism Group at Fordham University on November 19, 2010. He also guest-edited a special issue of Studies in Romanticism (49, no. 2, Summer 2010, appearing this fall), "Nostalgia, Melancholy, Anxiety: Discursive Mobility and the Circulation of Bodies." The volume contains essays by Kevis Goodman (University of California, Berkeley), Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia) Eric Gidal (University of Iowa), Elizabeth Fay (University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a Stony Brook Ph.D.), and Jennifer Fleissner (Indiana University).

Andrew Newman had his book manuscript, On Records: Delawares, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory, accepted for publication by the University of Nebraska Press.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips published his translation "Nela and the Virgins" ["Nela i les verges" by Mercč Ibarz] in Best European Fiction 2011 , edited by Aleksandar Hemon with an Introduction by Colum McCann (Dalkey Archive Press) in November 2010. His translation "Girls Shouldn't Play Soccer" ["Les nenes no haurien de jugar futbol" by Marta Buchaca] was performed in the Spotlight Catalonia, Prelude Festival at the Martin E. Segal Theater Center of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in October 2010; he read a selection of his poems with Julie Sheehan and Alexandra van de Kamp for the Melville Library Authors Series on campus at the Melville Library in September 2010. He published the poem "Grief and the Imaginary Grave, Vol. 2: Red Trillium" in Tuesday: An Art Project 4:2 (Fall 2010);  the book When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (Dalkey Archive Press) in July 2010; and the poems "Reverse Eurydice" and "Apollo: Season Three" in Granta in July 2010.

Jeffrey Santa Ana  presented a paper, “Masculinizing the Native Land:  Nationalism, Loss, and Indigenous Patriarchy in the Anti-Colonial Writings of José Rizal and José Martí" at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting on November 19, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas.

Julie Sheehan gave readings from her new collection, Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise,  in July at Poets House (with Terese Sveboda, Mark Bibbins and Leslie Chang) and at the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference (with Kaylie Jones); in August at Moe's Books in Berkeley, CA (with Robert Thomas) and at Elliott Bay Bookstore in Seattle (with Linda Bierds); in September at Stony Brook's Melville Library, at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Poetry Society of America's "Season in Poetry" series (with Maggie Dietz, Tom Healy) and at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles, CA (with Douglas Kearney); in October at the Lindenhurst and Port Jefferson Public Libraries; in November at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY; and in December at SB Manhattan (with Ursula Hegi). She gave the talk “Prososdy for Kids’ Lit” at the Stony Brook Southampton Children’s Literature Conference in July; a signing at the East Hampton Library's Authors Night and an interview on the radio show "Poetry Hour with J.P. Dancing Bear" (KKUP San Jose, CA) in August; a lecture on Bar Book at the Writers Studio Craft Class in NYC and at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue in October; and the talk "Emily Dickinson Flunks Writing 101!" at Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, NY.

Stephen Spector spoke on  “Evangelical Christians and Jews,” at the joint meeting of American Jewish Committee and Christian Coalition, Bucks County, PA, October 5, 2010.  He spoke on “Why Do Evangelicals Support Israel?” at the Greater Washington Community for Jewish Life, New Milford, CT, December 12, 2010; the Community Synagogue, Port Washington, NY, December 13, 2010; and the North Shore Jewish Center, December 14, 2010.

Bente Videbaek was inducted into the American Society of Collegiate Scholars as a Distinguished Member, October 17, 2010, for "commitment to scholarship, leadership and service." She was faculty participant in the society's "March to College" event.